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Views: Visits 16 Italian mob boss Rocco Morabito was arrested Monday in northeast Brazil, police said, almost two years after his escape from a prison in Uruguay where he was awaiting extradition to Italy. Morabito, considered a “capo” or captain of the ‘Ndrangheta group, was captured in the city of Joao Pessoa along with another Italian “outlaw” as a result of a joint investigation with Italy, Brazil’s federal police said in a statement. According to BBC, Morabito is wanted in Italy on charges of drug trafficking. “There are records of Rocco Morabito’s involvement in...

Italy hails the capture of mafia boss in Brazil AFP, ROME Italian prosecutors and police on Tuesday cheered the capture in Brazil of a leading mafia boss who has skirted justice in Italy for nearly 30 years. Rocco Morabito, No. 2 on the Italian Ministry of the Interior’s most dangerous fugitives list, was arrested on Monday in northeast Brazil. His capture came almost two years after his escape from a prison in Uruguay, where he was awaiting extradition to Italy. Mafia boss Rocco Morabito, second right, is escorted by police officers in a hangar in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, on Tuesday. Photo: Re...

Italian 'king of cocaine' mob boss Morabito arrested in Brazil Issued on: 25/05/2021 - 09:52 File photo taken Sept. 5, 2017and released by the Uruguayan ministry of interior shows Italian Rocco Morabito after his arrest in Montevideo. © Uruguayan ministry of interior, AFP 3 min Italian mob boss Rocco Morabito was arrested Monday in northeast Brazil, police said, almost two years after his escape from a prison in Uruguay where he was awaiting extradition to Italy Advertising Read more Morabito, considered a "capo...

The fugitive Italian mafia boss Rocco Morabito was arrested Monday in northeast Brazil, almost two years after he escaped through the roof of a prison in Uruguay where he was awaiting extradition to Italy.   Morabito - a top 'Ndrangheta figure - was captured in the city of Joao Pessoa along with another Italian 'outlaw' as a result of a joint investigation with Italy, Brazil's federal police said in a statement.  Dubbed the 'cocaine king of Milan', Morabito was arrested in Uruguay in 2017 after decades on the run and was awaiting extradition to Italy for international drug trafficking cha...

Morabito is number two on the Italian interior ministry's most dangerous fugitives list. He escaped almost two years ago from a prison in Uruguay. Italian prosecutors and police on Tuesday cheered the capture in Brazil of a leading mafia boss who has skirted justice in Italy for nearly 30 years. Rocco Morabito, number two on the Italian interior ministry's most dangerous fugitives list, was arrested Monday in northeast Brazil. His capture came almost two years after his audacious escape from a prison in Uruguay, where he was awaiting extradition to Italy. Morabito - considered a "capo" or ca...